Reading *1*
The trouble with travel
1) Answer the following questions:
01) What is the biggest industry in the world?
Travel and tourism.
02) Who is the writer? What does he write about?
Jason Best is the writer. He writes about travel.
03) Where did he travel from? To?
He travelled from London to Sydney.
04) How many people will pass through Dubai Airport in 2020?
Around 40 million will pass through Dubai Airport.
05) What is the benefit of travel?
Discovering new places and possibilities.
06) When did our ancestors leave Africa ? where did they go?
Our ancestors left Africa 160,000 years ago. They spread around the world and reached
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every continents except frozen Antarcctica.
07) Who were the most famous travelers in history?
Ibn Batuta and Marco Polo were the most famous travelers in history.
08) How does travel become different from the past?
In the past, journeys were long, hard and dangerous. Now , they become short, easy and
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safe.
09) How can tourists get their tickets?
We can get our tickets and book our accommodation through travel agent or on the internet.
10) What problem does tourism bring?
Pollution that planes leave in the sky and that resorts create on the ground.
11) How does the writer help to create the problem of pollution?
When he persuades people to visit those beautiful places.
12) What does he advise people?
He advises people to leave the places they visit as they find them and take only photographs.
2) Complete the following sentences:
1) Jason's magazine is an in-flight magazine.
2) The total number of trips in 1999 is ..1.6 billion while the figure is estimated at.3.2 billion for
2020.
3) Our ancestors left Africa and spread around the world and reached every continents except
Antarcatica.
5) Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta were not only travelers but also writers.
6) Travel has been part of being human.
7) A package holiday means a holiday that is organized by a travel agent who arranges your
travel and accommodation for you .
8) The ancient journeys from Africa to Australia took 100,000 years whereas the modern takes
less than a day.
9) Planes leave pollution in the sky and resorts creates pollution on the ground.
10) Wherever you go take only photographs and leave only footprints.
3) Find out from the text a word that means the meaning of the
followings:
01. trouble
problem
02. manufacturing
industry
03. lately
recently
04. wonderful
amazing
05. air trip
flight
06. universal
international
07. calcul
estimate
08. only
just
10. about/ approximately around
11. journeys
trips
12. number figure
13. globe
world
14. found out
15. old
ancient
16. a person who often travel
17. very cold frozen
19. anyplace
wherever.
discovered
18. a place for living
traveler
accommodation
4) True or false:
1. Our ancestor reached everywhere even frozen Antarcatica.
(F)
2. We need to travel to find out new places and new ways of life.
(T)
3. Travel and tourism are the biggest industry in the world.
(T)
4.Jason advised tourists to take photographs and leave garbage on the ground of the resorts. (F)
5. Modern travel isn't different from ancient travel.
5) What do the following words and phrases refer to:
*me : Jason Best.
*3.2 : The figure of air trips which is estimated for 2020.
*40 million : the number of passengers who will pass through Dubai Airport in 2020.
*They (9): ancestors.
*Their (13): Ibn Batuta and Marco Polo.
*they (2): journeys.
*this problem (13): pollution.
*here (10): in this article.
*it (14): any place you go.
Luck is not in your hands, but work
is. Your work can make your
luck……… Good day and good luck
Prepared by: Mrs. Iman Ghazi ELBorae " Shaheen"
(F)